Album Review: Lusts - Illuminations

A lucid fever dream of swirling hooks and power chords, the debut album from UK brothers Lusts comprises a dark analogue sound rooted in the past, tweaked for the digital age.

A lush, gothic shoegaze washes over the jubilancy of Sometimes and Careless, while the more contemporary indie of Bad Weekend, The Chair and Temptation give the album a ubiquitous verve.

Though unquestionably gratifying, injected with an air of urgency and consistency by its purring synths and throbbing motorik pulse, the lustre of Illuminations is perhaps prone to fading back into its shadowy milieu at times, a little too easily.